Editors know a lot. Trust me, just ask the editor here at Laptopical! That's why when an editor says something is good, it's wise to consider buying that thing pronto (unless the editor has taken a bung). Such is the case with the Dell Inspiron 1525 battery. It was selected as an Editor's Pick by the geezers at Laptop Magazine. This paradoxical laptop is both a higher-priced budget notebook that gives you more bang for your buck than most laptops in its price range.
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First bang? That silver racing stripe on the inspiron's shiny black lid. It's the cool Speedracer retro styling called the "Street." Or how's about the two other chassis style choices? The "Chill" pattern on your lid-a blue-and-white smear over a silver background? Or the "Blossom," a purplerific shell with a floral imprint for your slick chiquitas out there.
Our review unit will please those for whom good performance is a priority. Equipped with 2GB of memory and the best notebook CPU Dell offered for this model at the time of our review (a 2-GHz Core 2 Duo T7250), our $999 (as of 2/7/08) Windows Vista Home Premium machine earned a WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 78. That's 17 percent faster than the average score of 65 earned by the five under-$1000 laptops in this roundup, and even 13 percent better than the average of 69 earned by 16 recently tested all-purpose notebooks in any price range. With the battery upgraded from the standard four-cell to a six-cell ($15 extra), our notebook lasted a fairly generous 4 hours, 4 minutes on one charge, about 10 minutes longer than our five budget laptop test group's average.
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About the only thing the Inspiron 1525 can't handle is 3D graphics; with an Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 and no dedicated video card option, it's limited to simple games and other 2D applications.
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The Dell Inspiron 1525 is wedge-shaped but svelte at 2.8kg, including a 15.4in 1,280x800 resolution screen, a DVD writer and a good keyboard. The port variety and layout is fine (the Dell Inspiron 1525 is one of the few notebooks in this price range with an HDMI connection).
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And the Inspiron 1525 battery gives multimedia lovers lots of entertainment features: an instant-on button, a webcam, and even dual headphone jacks. Alas, the raspy-sounding speakers take some of the shine off the 1525's entertainment appeal.
The Good:
Slimmed-down design; low starting price; high-end extras are available, including HDMI and touch-sensitive media control buttons.
The Bad:
Not as many configuration options as some of Dell's other laptops; plastic construction feels somewhat flimsy; base $499 configuration about as powerful as an abacus.
The Bottom Line:
Taking consumer complaints to heart, Dell updates its mainstream 15-inch laptop with the Inspiron 1525. It's thinner, lighter, and less expensive than its predecessor.
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The lifespan of a Dell Inspiron laptop is usually quite substantial, sometimes to the point where it becomes long in the tooth. Thus it's unusual to be mourning the loss of the Dell Inspiron 1520 after only six months on the market. Stepping into the spotlight to replace it is the revamped battery for Dell Inspiron 1525. While there's no miracle weight loss here, the 6-pound frame is nearly half a pound lighter than the 1520's, and the tapering design gives it a slimmer silhouette (similar to that of the Dell XPS M1530). An unpleasant side effect of going small, however, is that powerful graphics cards will not be offered as an option—only integrated graphics.
Lately, Dell has been categorizing their laptops pretty well. Their Inspiron brand initially consisted of plain, mainstream, low-priced laptops. Their premium XPS range included sleeker models with better looks and additional features -- at a premium, of course. But the Inspiron range has followed the story of the ugly duckling, and is catching up with its prettier cousin in terms of looks as well as features. We're reviewing the Inspiron 1525 today.
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A 2-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 processor, 2GB of memory, and a 120GB hard drive spinning at 5,400 rpm combined to deliver an impressive PCMark05 score of 4,197, the highest in the roundup. It managed a score of 124 on MobileMark 2007, which is head-and-shoulders above the rest in the group.
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The dell laptop battery, which lasted 4 hours and 23 minutes on our rundown test, also took top honors. A 3DMark03 score of 1,704 means you’ll have to play your 3D games in low-res mode with all the bells and whistles turned off for best results, but you can enable Vista’s Aero effects without worry.
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